STATE OF MUSLIM ULEMAS TODAY

To understand the present condition of Muslims and some so called mullahs/imam, I am sharing with the readers at large and the Muslim in particular some sayings of the Holy Prophet (saw), some views of religious “leaders” and some poets:

“Of a truth, they have greater fear of you in their hearts than of Allah. That is because they are a people who are devoid of all reason. They will not fight you in a body except in fortified towns or from behind walls. Their fighting among themselves is severe. Thou thinkest them to be united, but their hearts are divided. That is because they are a people who have no sense. Their case is like the case of those who have, a short time before them, tasted the evil consequences of their doings. And for them is a painful punishment. (al-Hashr, 59:14–16)

A monotheistic, Abrahamic religion, Islam means "submission", to the will of God. An adherent of Islam, a Muslim, means "one who submits to the will of God". The Qur’an, addressed to all humankind, was revealed to Prophet Mohammad saw through the angel Gabriel between 610 and 632 CE.

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Muslims consider the Qur’an to be the undisputed scripture, the Word of God, and Prophet Mohammad saw as the final law bearing prophet. Retained in its original form and without variants, the Qur’an confirms that prophets have been sent to all people throughout the world to sustain humanity in all ages. The Qur’an describes God as the Lord and Sustainer of the worlds, Prophet Mohammad saw as “the messenger for mankind”, refers to itself as the “message for the world” and Muslims as people “...raised for the good of mankind”.

Islamic teachings are encapsulated in the articles of faith, acts of worship, codes for social and moral behaviour, and the philosophy of life. This framework of beliefs, duties, obligations, exhortations and sanctions seeks to stimulate and deepen human consciousness by emphasizing duties and obligations to safeguard freedom, justice and equality for all and promote and foster human welfare and prosperity in all spheres — social, economic, moral and spiritual. The Teachings seek to establish a pattern of society, which, in all the changing and developing circumstances of a dynamic world, would maintain its character of beneficence in individual, domestic, national and international affairs.

Fragmentation amongst Muslims is high; by some counts, six dozen sects exist amongst Muslims. Sects are based on conceptual differences and form when alternate ideas are presented to resolve issues; a new sect is formed when adherents rally around that concept or the leader. Muslims can and should reconcile their differences through intellectual discourse by referring to the Qur’an which is unanimously accepted as its undisputed source.

Muslims all over the place, paint the scene as though there was peace and harmony among Muslims before the advent of the Promised Messiah as, and for them, the British created Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat to divide Muslims. However Maulavi Abul Hasan ‘Ali Nadvi, author of an anti Ahmadiyya book describes the conditions of Muslims before the Promised Messiah as in the following words:

“Looked at internally, the situation was even worse. Mutual disagreements between Muslim sects had assumed frightful proportions. Each sect was busy denouncing the other. Sectarian polemics were the order of the day, leading often to violent clashes, even to bloodshed and litigation over controversial sectarian issues. The whole of India was in the grip of what might be termed a sectarian civil war. This too had given birth to mental confusion and created breaches in the Muslim society and disgust in the people and had considerably damaged the prestige of the Muslim 'ulema and of Islam. (Maulana Syed Abul Hasan ‘Ali Nadvi Nazim Nadwatul-‘ulama’ Lacknow, Qadianiyyat, p. 16–17). The author further writes: “Muslims were generally in the grip of frustration and had fallen prey to defeatism. The failure of the struggle of 1857 and of a number of other recent religious and militant movements was fresh in their memory. Many of them had despaired, therefore, of bringing about any change and reform through normal processes and a large number of people had begun to await the advent of some charismatic personality, some divinely appointed leader”.

The newspaper Wakil of January 15, 1927 reads: “This disease is not new but had begun long ago. First, Muslims followed the Jews and Christians in their personal lives, and now it is being done collectively. This resulted in the revocation of khilafat. (Wakil, January 15, 1927)

Scattered Sheep

A famous newspaper of the Muslim clergy, al-Jam‘iyyah, of Delhi in its April 14, 1926 issue writes: Suddenly, it has been exposed to the world that if the Muslim ummah is a bound book or a rosary, then today the Muslim ummah in reality does not exist. Rather they are scattered pages, a few strewn beads, or lost sheep without a flock or Sheppard. (al-Jam‘iyyah, April 14, 1926)

In the Footsteps of ‘Ad and Thamud

Addressing Indian Muslims on behalf of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw, the Zamindar newspaper, in its September 18, 1925 issue states: You are called my ummah, yet you behave like Jews and idolaters. Your conduct is becoming like that of ‘A’d and Thamud, in that abandoning the Lord of all the worlds, you are worshiping Ba‘l, Yaghuth, Nasra, and Ya‘uq. Most of you insult me [the Holy Prophet].

The newspaper, al-Bashir, in its September, 1925 issue reads: Just study the history of sectarianism among the Jews and Christians at the advent of the Holy Prophet saw, and then compare it with the Islamic ulema of this age. It will be clearly proven that the condition of today’s ulema of Islam is a mirror image of the Jewish and Christian ulema of that age. (Al-Bashir, Ottawa, September, 1925)

Poets Mourning the Misery of Muslims

As far as Muslim poets are concerned, their poetry on the miserable conditions of the Muslims is heartrending.

Maulana Hali wrote a requiem. And then the way ‘Allamah Iqbal described this [the Muslim condition] in his famous Shikwah [Complaint] and Jawab-e-Shikwah [Reply to theComplaint] is a long story.

Maulana Hali says:

“There remains neither the faith nor Islam .The only thing left is the name of Islam.

Comparing Islam to a garden he writes:

Then you will see a garden, utterly in ruins,

where dust flies everywhere relentlessly.

There is no sign of life in it.

The green branches have fallen off, dead.

It is unable to blossom or bear fruit.

Its trees are only good for burning.

And then with great anguish, Maulana Hali addresses the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw):

“Oh Most Special of the Special Prophets, it is time for prayer.

A very strange time has descended on your ummah.

The faith that arose with majesty from its birthplace,

is today in a state of utter destitution elsewhere.

The religion that once invited Caesar and Chosroes

is now itself poorest of the poor.

The faith that once illuminated the assemblies of the world

now has neither lamp nor light in its own assembly.

Conditions have deteriorated such that mending does no good.

It appears that this is preordained.

Oh Protector of the Ship of Islam,

I beseech Thee that this ship is well nigh destroyed.”

Allamah Iqbal wrote about the Muslims:

You [the Muslims] are Christians in appearance and Hindus in culture. Even the Jews feel ashamed when compared to these Muslims.

According to Maulvi Maududi, the Muslim Nation is Born of Ignorance.

Now listen to what Maulavi Maududi said:

Go to the city, and you will see ‘Muslim prostitutes’ are sitting in brothels and ‘Muslim adulterous men’ wandering around. Examine the prisons and you will be introduced to ‘Muslim thieves’, ‘Muslim robbers’, and ‘Muslim rascals’. Visit offices and courts and you will find the word Muslim attached to bribery, false testimony, forgery, fraud, extortion, and every other kind of moral crime. In society, you will meet ‘Muslim drunkards’, ‘Muslim gamblers’, ‘Muslim musicians’, ‘Muslim singers’, and ‘Muslim slapstick comedians’.

Now, think about this: how much has the word Muslim been perverted and with what characters has it been attached—Muslim adulterer, drunkard, gambler, Bribe-taker. If a Muslim does whatever a disbeliever can do, what is the need for a Muslim in this world? (Musalman Aur Maujudah Siyasi Kashmakash [Muslims and Current Political Struggle], part 3, p. 28–29, under the caption, ‘Tahrik-e-Islami ka Tanuzzul’, [The Decline of Islamic Movement])

Now, listen to Maulavi Maududi’s further analysis. It has been said about the Promised Messiah as that, God forbid, that he spoke about Muslims harshly and verbally assaulted them. But listen to Maulavi Maududi, who has been credited as the one who has inner perception of the nature of the prophethood (of Muhammad saw):

If you examine this so-called Muslim society, you will find all sorts of Muslims. There are so many types of Muslims that they cannot be counted. It is a zoo in which crows, vultures, quails, partridges, and a thousand other kinds of animals are present, and every one of them is a ‘bird’. (Musalman Aur Maujudah Siyasi Kashmakash [Muslims and Current Political Struggle], part 3, p. 31, under the caption, ‘Tahrik-e-Islami ka Tanuzzul’, [The Decline of Islamic Movement])

Maulavi Maududi further writes:

There is nothing in the Divine teachings on the basis of which the Ahle Hadith, Hanafi, Deobandi, Barelvi, Shi‘ah, or Sunni, etc., can become separate sects. [Meaning there can only be one ummah which is named Jama‘at-e-Islami and no other. About the other sects, that is, Hanafi, Deobandi, etc. he adjudges:] All these sects are the products of ignorance. (Khutabat, 4th edn., p. 74, under the caption ‘Din Aur Shari‘at’ [Religion and Law])

And as far as common Muslims are concerned, Maulavi Maududi writes:

This great multitude, called Muslims, is in such a state that 99.9% of its people have no knowledge of Islam nor are they able to distinguish truth from falsehood. Neither their moral point-of-view nor their mental attitude coincides with Islam. Just the name ‘Muslim’ has been transferred from father to son and that is the reason they are Muslims. (Musalman Aur Maujudah Siyasi Kashmakash, part 3, p. 130, under the caption ‘Islam ki Rahe Rast Aur is-sey Inhiraf ki Rahein, The Right Path to Islam and Ways which Lead Away From It)

Muslim Decline and International Press

I will mention a few references regarding the condition of Muslims. These references are from various countries.

Anyone interested can read the originals. For example, there are references of ulema from Hyderabad, Deccan, Central Province (now Madhya Pradesh), and Maharashtara in India, Egypt and Iraq in the Arab world, Burma (now Myanmar), Turkey, Java Island, Siam (now Thailand), Russia, and Algeria. Furthermore there are reviews published in newspapers. Detailed accounts can be found in the following:

Zamindar, July 16, 1926

Ahle Hadith, February 18, 1921

Ahle Hadith, January 14, 1921

Ahle Hadith, January 28, 1921

Ahle Hadith, April 16, 1910

Ahle Hadith, January 25, 1920

Mustaqil, July 12, 1929

Hum Dum, September 8, 1920

Hum Dum, January 17, 1925

Siyasat, November 5, 1925

Milap, August 16, 1925

Madinah, April 1, 1925

Inqilab, June 1, 1930

Tufan, September 27, 1930

Tanzim, November 8, 1925

Ittehad, May 31, 1931

Himmat, August 24, 1929

Mashriq, May 16, 1930

These references are only from a few famous newspapers. Many books have shed detailed light on this subject. There are many references in Maulavi Maududi’s books that are well-known to the ‘scholars’. -

A Severe Warning to the Muslim Ummah by the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw

The following question arises: If the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama‘at is not causing any discord then why is there so much discord erupting in many countries? There is, in fact, dissension spread all over the world. Muslims are totally divided among themselves, and their condition has deteriorated. They all unite against Ahmadiyyat, which reminds me of the hadith- All 72 sects will go to hell except one. The sect that will follow me and my Companions.’- but we must investigate why they are always fighting each other, because of which, according to Maulana Maududi, the Muslim ummah is infested with all sorts of immoralities and evils (God forbid). To get the answer to these questions, we turn our attention to the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw because he is the leader of the ummah until the Last Day. Allah, the Almighty, had clearly shown to the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw the state through which the Muslim ummah was to pass until the Last Day. He warned Muslims about the many dangers to be faced by his ummah.

Instead of arguing and fighting with each other, we should turn our attention to the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw. We should ask him, ‘O, our beloved leader, your ummah is in great pain. You tell us who is responsible for this dissension, and who is spreading poison among the Muslim people, and who is creating discord, because of which every joint in the Muslim ummah is hurting?’

Hadrat ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr narrates the following hadith:

The Holy Prophet saw said: ‘My ummah will face the same conditions as the Children of Israel have faced. The similarity will be so complete that it is like one shoe of a pair resembling the other. If someone among the Children of Israel had committed adultery with his mother, there will also be a wretched one in my ummah to do the same. The Children of Israel were divided into seventy-two sects, but my ummah will be divided into seventy-three. All will be hell-bound except one.’ The Companions ra asked which sect this would be. The Holy Prophet saw answered: ‘The sect that will follow me and my Companions.’ (1. Tirmadhi, Abwab-ul-Iman, Babo Iftiraqi Hazihil-Ummate wal-Jami‘us-Saghir [chapter ‘Divisions in the Ummah’. 2. al-Jami‘us-Saghir’] 2/110 Masri)

The Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) said:

There will be nothing left of knowledge. People will make the ignorant their leaders and will seek guidance from them in matters of religion. These leaders will issue fatwas without any knowledge. They will themselves be misguided and will lead others astray. (Mishkat, Kitab ul-‘Ilm)

There is another hadith that sheds even more light on this subject:

Hadrat ‘Ali narrates that the Holy Prophet saw said: ‘A time will come in the near future when there will be nothing left of Islam except its name. And there will be nothing left of the Holy Qur’an except its words [meaning the Holy Qur’an would not be understood and followed]. The mosques of that age will apparently be full of people, but will be empty of righteousness. Their ulema will be the worst creatures under the heaven. Discord will rise from them and will come right back to them. [That is, these ulema will be the source of all evils.] (al-Baihaqi as quoted in al-Mishkat Kitab-ul ‘Ilm, chapter 3, p. 38 and Kanzul ‘Ummal, chapter 6, p. 43)

Meaning that the root cause of all the evils will be the maulavis. And they will be the source of all kinds of dissension and discord. The Holy Prophet Muhammad saw said that ‘these ulemas will be the worst creatures under the sun, and they will apparently be of my ummah, and they will associate themselves with me. But, in reality, they will be their ulema, (the ulema of the unrighteous Muslims) and would have no spiritual connection to me.’

Meaning: In my ummah, an era will come when there will be disputes and there will be hostilities. Conflicts will arise. Usually, common people will fight among each other, but the blame should not rest with them. People will turn to their ulema to find out what is going on, and to see why they are the victims of violence and mayhem. When the people go to their ulema in the hope for guidance, they will find the ulema like monkeys and swine, meaning that these are not ulema, but monkeys and swine.

Now, these are neither my words, nor of any religious scholar, nor of any Companion ra, nor of any khalifah.

These are the words of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw who never said anything but what was commanded to him by Allah. Every person has the right and duty to ask these ulema why they are hiding these ahadith, and why they are not disclosing them with the Muslim ummah?

One does not have to go too far in the past to find out that, indeed, the ulema are ignorant, and they issue religious fatawa without any understanding. In 1985, a statement by the President of Pakistan was published in the newspaper [Daily] Jang, (Lahore) of January 31, 1985.

According to this statement, there are about 50,000 imams of mosques in Pakistan, and 36,000 of them are only half learned, and another 11,000 are absolutely illiterate. People often forget that just as a half-learned doctor is dangerous to one’s body, a half-learned maulavi is dangerous to one’s soul.

The danger is present in Mauritius also. Those who have failed their CPE are sent to Darul Ulum for Islamic studies. The Holy Prophet Muhammad saw had warned us about this danger 1430 years ago

Maududi Sahib’s Analysis on Maulavi-ism

Finally, I present the analysis of Maulavi Maududi. From this you will get an idea of how high a position they [maulavis] hold! Maulavi Sahib says:

It is sad that all but a few of the ulema had lost the true spirit of Islam. [First he issued a fatwa about the Muslim laity and now about the mullahs.] They lacked the power of Ijtihad. They had forgotten the ability to acquire knowledge. They had no wisdom. They had lost the strength to do anything. They totally lacked the capability to extract lasting and adaptable principles of Islam from the Book of God or the verbal and practical guidance provided by the Messenger of God. They could not apply these principles to the changed times. They were overwhelmed by the disease of blindly following the traditions of their forefathers. Because of this, they looked for all their answers in the writings of their forefathers rather than the Books of God—which transcend the limitations of time. In every instance they turned to the people who were not prophets of God—whose vision is free from the constraint of time and situation. Therefore, how was it possible for the ulema to guide the Muslims successfully when the times had changed and a great transformation had occurred in the world of science and technology that only God could have known, but a person who is not a prophet could not have revealed what lay ahead in the centuries to come. (Tanqihate- Abul-A‘la Maududi, p. 27 under caption, ‘Dauri Jadid ki Bimar Qaumein’ [Ailing Nations of Modern Times])

Why has the Islamic Civilization collapsed? Why has all this death and destruction become rampant? Because those ulema to whom Muslims turned to were not prophets of Allah whose vision is free from the constraints of time and situation.

The Only Way for the Salvation of Muslims

O Muslims, you have only one way to salvation: Accept the person who has been bestowed knowledge and wisdom by Allah, and about whom Hadrat Muhammad saw had given glad tidings. He, who is from Allah, has brought the cure for all your problems and all your illnesses. You have rejected him, and now what do you expect?

I have told you the truth. There is no other fate for you. If you want to live, then save yourself from these people whom the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw had described as the breeding place and source of all disorder and dissension. Remember, you can never have life after ignoring the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw. You will have to acquiesce to the diagnosis of the disease in you (Muslim ummah) made by the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw. If you do not admit it today, then tomorrow your future generations will accept it. The cure for this disease is what the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw had prescribed, i.e. you must accept Hadrat Imam Mahdi, the divine Imam. You have to accept that Promised Messiah as, who has been raised by Allah the Almighty Himself, to revive Islam. And, if

you do not accept, then forever your destiny will be death, and nothing else.

This response aims to encourage introspection among Muslims to understand how their religion of peace is being manipulated by the so called imam/mullahs worldwide; the chasm between the Islam of Allah (God) and that of the mullah is being highlighted. Alhamdulillah we have been warned by the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw of the dangers represented by them. How could an Imam lead you in prayers while he is thinking about his illicit trafficking? We have to follow the teachings of the Holy Quran and Hadith. Please meditate on this “Scratch a Mullah, you’ll have a devil”